I find great plea­sure in look­ing at the faces of peo­ple from the days long gone. Read­ing the fine lines is like try­ing to map out the events that took place before we were even born  —  or were too far away from where it hap­pened. Please enjoy a fine col­lec­tion of the images below  —  some are just […]

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Mil­i­tary Dis­charge Hand­made Scrap Book and Comics Album
The com­pul­sory two years of mil­i­tary ser­vice was a rite of pas­sage for every Soviet guy. When one turned eigh­teen  —  unless for sick­ness or injury  —  it was time to be called in for the mil­i­tary life  —  two years in the bar­racks. The guys usu­ally bonded well and dur­ing their spare time […]

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A Glance at the Soviet Lifestyle, Cap­tured by Marc Riboud.
This is our third post devoted to Marc Riboud, an out­stand­ing French pho­tog­ra­pher, who trav­eled exten­sively through­out the Soviet Union.  His images cap­tured an array of every­day life episodes from the lives of the Soviet peo­ple.  Here is the first lot  —  and here is the sec­ond one. […]

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Novocherkassk is a small town in the South of Rus­sia, also known as the unof­fi­cial cap­i­tal of the Cos­sacks, the Slavic mil­i­tary com­mu­nity. Unfor­tu­nately this town was the place of a huge tragedy, when in 1962 the civil­ian demon­stra­tion was opened fire on.
The tur­moil started on June, 1 when the Soviet gov­ern­ment announced the gro­cery price […]

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1953 was the last year of long and ter­ri­fy­ing gov­ern­ing of Stalin. In Jan­u­ary the huge coun­try although accus­tomed to repres­sions shud­dered from the new hor­ror  –   this time the enemies-saboteurs were Krem­lin doc­tors of a Jew­ish ori­gin. The com­menced per­se­cu­tion also applied to ordi­nary doc­tors.  Soviet peo­ple who believed to the polit­i­cally edited sto­ries broadcast […]

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Here’s our lit­tle some­thing for your Mon­day  —  a com­pi­la­tion of Time mag­a­zine cov­ers with a USSR focus, 1925  —  1991. The promi­nent Soviet and Russ­ian politi­cians, gov­ern­ment lead­ers, poets, com­posers, writ­ers, philoso­phers, sci­en­tists, astro­nauts, dis­si­dents, admi­rals and a few dic­ta­tors  —  the list of 110 remark­able cit­i­zens of the Soviet Union; those who made the West cringe  —  or laugh for […]

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